“We have to construct the figure of a new David, the multitude as champion of asymmetrical combat, immaterial workers who became a new kind of combatants, cosmopolitan bricoleurs of resistance and cooperation.”

— Antonio Negri, book Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

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